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1. I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency (twitter.com/cperciva)
792 points by caiobegotti on Aug 9, 2020 | 185 comments
2. Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees (theverge.com)
769 points by uptown on Aug 10, 2020 | 747 comments
3. What's it like to be an Octopus? (2017) (lrb.co.uk)
334 points by samgilb on Aug 10, 2020 | 162 comments
4. PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later (nngroup.com)
396 points by ciprian_craciun on Aug 10, 2020 | 357 comments
5. Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip (checkpoint.com)
381 points by Flenser on Aug 10, 2020 | 114 comments
6. Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers (capitalandgrowth.org)
490 points by jkuria on Aug 10, 2020 | 515 comments
7. Celebrate Woz's 70th (wozbday.com)
393 points by salgernon on Aug 10, 2020 | 162 comments
8. How long does a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out? (woodgears.ca)
427 points by cardamomo on Aug 10, 2020 | 370 comments
9. The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013) (freedom-to-tinker.com)
298 points by t4h4 on Aug 10, 2020 | 141 comments
10. Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups
194 points by Ali_Jiwani on Aug 10, 2020 | 87 comments
11. The Clean Network – United States Department of State (state.gov)
347 points by sysoleg on Aug 10, 2020 | 391 comments
12. Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf] (house.gov)
435 points by mosiuerbarso on Aug 10, 2020 | 265 comments
13. G Suite Doesn't Let You Contact Support Until Logged In. Locked Out = Stuck
465 points by HelloThur on Aug 10, 2020 | 135 comments
14. Olric: Distributed in-memory data structures in Go (github.com/buraksezer)
217 points by mastabadtomm on Aug 10, 2020 | 27 comments
15. That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think (fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com)
291 points by LinuxBender on Aug 10, 2020 | 412 comments
16. Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics (github.com/glasgowembedded)
167 points by tonyg on Aug 9, 2020 | 27 comments
17. React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features (reactjs.org)
227 points by jack_hanford on Aug 10, 2020 | 118 comments
18. Kicking Off the Repl.it Programming Language Jam (repl.it)
141 points by amasad on Aug 10, 2020 | 72 comments
19. CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better (nytimes.com)
335 points by mitchbob on Aug 10, 2020 | 668 comments
20. A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS (microsoft.com)
105 points by pjmlp on Aug 9, 2020 | 52 comments
21. Where do argc and argv come from? (briancallahan.net)
191 points by signa11 on Aug 9, 2020 | 105 comments
22. The Three Bay Areas (2017) (thebolditalic.com)
198 points by mdu96 on Aug 10, 2020 | 86 comments
23. GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree (github.com/github)
208 points by tenet on Aug 9, 2020 | 95 comments
24. If it's a nice problem to have, don't solve it now (davnicwil.com)
144 points by davnicwil on Aug 10, 2020 | 69 comments
25. Wiltshire valley locals build their own mobile phone network (newscabal.co.uk)
124 points by ColinWright on Aug 10, 2020 | 26 comments
26. How We Got the Favicon (2017) (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
146 points by simonpure on Aug 10, 2020 | 64 comments
27. Photos from Bell Labs Datacenter in 1960s (2019) (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
242 points by Zaheer on Aug 10, 2020 | 71 comments
28. GraalVM (graalvm.org)
176 points by gjvc on Aug 9, 2020 | 102 comments
29. Codata in action, or how to connect FP and OOP (javiercasas.com)
100 points by siraben on Aug 10, 2020 | 54 comments
30. More than 100 coal-fired plants have been converted to natural gas since 2011 (eia.gov)
92 points by lawrenceyan on Aug 9, 2020 | 60 comments

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